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Very quiet, compared to Rocchiocoli…
16 wickets and 246 runs or 39 wickets and 236 runs. Green’s good average of 61.5 worth noting.

Round 10 Sheffield Shield wrap – Who's hitting their stride ahead of the big final?

NSW could have featured in the final.

Good enough to beat WA at the WACA in the season, but, just a bit too flakey.

If you’re going to include Bancroft you have to have Whiteman, seeing that they’ve just set the record for the highest overall opening partnership for WA. Whiteman averaged 48 himself this season. And you need a spinner. Rocchiocoli for Tremain,has to be.

Round 10 Sheffield Shield wrap – Who's hitting their stride ahead of the big final?

Connolly and Hobson…
Connolly at #3 180 in a premier grade final. And he bowls well.
Talent aplenty there.

'As much talent as Warner coming through': Ponting's big call as Fraser-McGurk gets late IPL contract

Not too many players with four shield titles,kudos to him.

Matthew Wade to retire from first-class cricket after Sheffield Shield final

Gannon is O’Neill’s equal.

Test Mortem: Epic comeback win but cracks remain in line-up, Shield form has to count for something, Pat should bat higher

On what appears to be a difficult pitch, uneven bounce,a bit green (12 mm of grass)
any score of forty or more looks good.eg Hardie.
If Murphy can get wickets then it must be tricky.
This was the conundrum for the curators,make it bland and WA bats for a draw, make it spicy and WA’s bowlers,every bit as good as the Vic’s may just roll them

Test Mortem: Epic comeback win but cracks remain in line-up, Shield form has to count for something, Pat should bat higher

And… Maybe they’ll do well or keep cutting an average of 35.
That may have to do.

Test Mortem: Epic comeback win but cracks remain in line-up, Shield form has to count for something, Pat should bat higher

They would still be facing Doggett, McAndrew ,Paris, O’Neill, Bell, Steketee, Gannon, Rocchiocoli or even Murphy.
On green pitches, all season.
Plenty of preparation there.

Test Mortem: Epic comeback win but cracks remain in line-up, Shield form has to count for something, Pat should bat higher

Tim Paine, Tim who,reckons that we wouldn’t beat a full strength England side, lucky to beat NZ, Pakistan and the West Indies.

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Every player in the team has done something, somewhere in the past year.
Will this continue withanno domini the threat to the older players.
Seven tests in a row for the bowlers and only one change, Green for Warner.

It doesn’t sound like a long-term process in the planning.
If we have to consider having three sub-45 average players in the side in eighteen months time,so be it.

No Khawaja,Smith and maybe Marsh.
No Starc,no Hazelwood even if injuries can be kept at bay.

Carey the clutch king: Gloveman's stunning 98, Cummins heroics keep Kiwi curse alive in thrilling comeback win

Definitely a mistake there,Gibbo.

Round 9 Sheffield Shield wrap - Is anyone putting pressure on Marnus for a Test spot, and is 'poor Will' done?

He may have meant preverts as in his outstanding explanation of Williamson’s previously centuried up half centuries.

'You want a century in a run chase, you get it before Cummins arrives': The Liebke Report Card

If Erasmus had declared Marsh not out,and there was a coat of varnish in it, he and Carey would have motored home.
Mind you, the twenty something runs that Cummins scored, might have been scored by MM and he would have three figures instead.

All the same, a cracking match, probably decided by fewer fielding errors by Australia coupled with slightly more consistent bowling and two or three bits of dodgy captaincy by Southee.
Our top order is at sixes and sevens,not their actual scores, Khawaja bats slowly because he can’t count on Smith, Labuschagne gets out when he shouldn’t,Head is like the Welsh say” today the skyrocket, tomorrow the stick”.
Cam Green much the same.
Can we continue to count on Marsh,the great extractor? Carey is fine, Starc much more miss than hit, Cummins has a good innings one in three, like Lyon, Hazelwood one in twenty.
It is rare for Australia to excel in the batting and bowling department simultaneously.
When we do, look out or back…

Carey the clutch king: Gloveman's stunning 98, Cummins heroics keep Kiwi curse alive in thrilling comeback win

So the Kiwis love the Kugg again…

Rejigged Aussie batting line-up fails again as top-order collapse puts Black Caps on track for drought-breaking Test win

I think you’ve got the bull by the udder here Blink.
He’s played one Shield game this season. He averaged 2.2 dismissals per innings last season. Quite comparable to Carey at 2.6..

Not to mention that he has Bancroft at first slip who is is the best close fielder in the country, so no need to go for those.

Are you saying that Morris, Richardson, Paris, Kelly and other West Australian fast bowlers who you may not have heard about , if asked , would say that they aren’t happy with his work behind the stumps ?

You’d be wrong.

Rejigged Aussie batting line-up fails again as top-order collapse puts Black Caps on track for drought-breaking Test win

Also, some players not doing as well as expected. Quelle surprise!

Aussies confirm Marnus call with team locked in for second New Zealand Test as Cummins reveals special goal

The current crop of Shield bowlers are knocking on the door, but until one of the incumbents pulls the pin, we won’t see the likes of O’Neill,Perry, Paris, Richardson or Morris, when fit, Meredith ,Bell or*shudder*,*gasp* Rocchiocoli, in the ranks.
Bowling not a problem,keepers the same.
But maybe, we have to accept that one,two or more of the batspersons in the Shield, averaging over 40,this season,will have to do.

England is getting by with only Joe Root in the high forties, so unpalatable as it may be, some of the loaf is better than no loaf at all.

Pipeline running dry: Aussie selectors struggling to find young batters knocking at the door, let alone bashing it down

Look at all the players in the Shield who are getting good scores, taking wickets,fielding well.
Every side has standouts from this end of the season.
Shows what a good run against decent opposition on a variety of grounds will do for confidence, eye/hand skills,fitness and durability.
The three best sides, Tasmania, Victoria and WA are solid teams with deep batting, good bowlers and handy to very handy fielders.
Victoria gave Pakistan a hard match after all.

COMMENT: Horrendously out of form or not, Australia would be mad to ditch Marnus now

Never mind strike rate, Rocchiocoli is a wicket taking matchwinner, Murphy is not.
Should be a great tussle, O’Neill,Perry, Sutherland battling the mental anguish of being thrashed by Webster last week and losing the unlosable.
WA with winning momentum.

Test Mortem: Aussie aura living rent free in Kiwi minds, Marnus officially in a form slump, DRS needs review

You don’t know otherwise so you have, as usual, no idea.
Carey is fine as a keeper,Inglis is acknowledged by others, east of the RPF to also be fine.
Not by you. You’ll catch up eventually.

Also, get a better line in insults. Yours do you no credit.

Every Aussie rated from first Test vs New Zealand: Green and GOAT great, Marnus misery as batting woes deepen

Ever thought that Voges,the esteemed, title-winning coach, might value Rocchiocoli a lot more than you?
He bowls long spells at 3 runs/over to keep WA’s fast bowling cartel fresh and firing.
Can’t say that about Murphy this season,or Swepson,or Green.

Test Mortem: Aussie aura living rent free in Kiwi minds, Marnus officially in a form slump, DRS needs review

Murphy had an injury,not his first. Then he wasn’t picked because his grade form was dire.
Can’t see the Vics getting close. Bancroft and Whiteman superior openers. Paris, Gannon and Stobo in season-best form, Hardie returns,Inglis a century last match, Rocchiocoli an eight wicket game ( when did Murphy last do that)?
If Junction Oval is flat, they’ll never get WA out, that will be sweet.
Make it spicy and the Vics will lose …Badly

Test Mortem: Aussie aura living rent free in Kiwi minds, Marnus officially in a form slump, DRS needs review

Inglis would have stopped them.

I get that you’re not an Inglis fan, but your constant regurgitation of your erroneous,in my opinion, opinion about him, without statistics to back you up, makes what you say egregious, risible and poor.
After all,under the highest pressure, he took a record five catches in the World Cup final.
Slipped your mind, did it?
Not surprising .

Every Aussie rated from first Test vs New Zealand: Green and GOAT great, Marnus misery as batting woes deepen

How many byes did Carey let through again?

Every Aussie rated from first Test vs New Zealand: Green and GOAT great, Marnus misery as batting woes deepen

Corey Rocchiocolli took eight for the match. On bouncier wickets, he’s the best in the Shield.
Swepson and Murphy also-rans.
And he has as many wickets as Mitch and Todd combined!

Joy of six: Lyon dismembers Black Caps as Aussies surge to commanding win, 1-0 series lead

Inglis took two catches,one difficult, one easy.
He is being outcaught by Bancroft…

Joy of six: Lyon dismembers Black Caps as Aussies surge to commanding win, 1-0 series lead

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